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I have read what I consider one of James Patterson’s greatest novels,Alex Cross’s Trial,co-authored by Richard Dillalo. It talks of slavery in the South and the terrible aftermath of the Civil War which resulted in extreme anger of some southern men who malicious downgraded, segregated, belittled, cheated, robbed, burned, mutilated, beat to death and hung black men, women, and children.

This devilish hatred took a hundred years to quell, culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the forced desegregation of schools. It took action by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to make it happen.

President Harry S. Truman

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

There were nine African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. He changed his mind when President Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened. This is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school. This was followed by mobs making threats to lynch. If you want to know of the turmoil, fear, and anguish blacks must have felt when that occurred, please read James Patterson’s heart rendering historical novel Alex Cross’s Trial. Without a doubt, it is a classic piece of literature.

In July, 1948 President Harry S. Truman eliminated segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ruling on May 17, 1954. It declared that all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional and called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation. A plan of gradual integration to comply with the high court’s ruling was implemented during the fall of 1957. Nine black students attended the previously all-white Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School. Following President Eisenhowers intervention, those students were allowed into that school, and students were registered in all-white schools throughout the south and the nation, thus accomplishing the de-segregation of schools in America. Eisenhower tried to get Civil Rights legislation passed by a predominantly Democrat Congress and failed. It wasn’t until 1964 under President Lyndon Johnson that the Civil Rights bill was passed by Congress.

Joseph Smith As A boy of 14

prayed in a grove of trees

near his home in Palmyra, NY

and asked asked God and Jesus

Christ, who appeared to him,

which church to join. He was

told to join none of them. That

was 1820. In 1832 he received

a revelation predicting the

Civil War. The Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-Day Saints was

formed. members are called either

Latter-day-Saints or Mormons.

From the get-go, the Church openly

opposed slavery and preached

the equality of man.

TheCivil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L.88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in theUnited Statesthat outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregationin schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public such as public accommodations, hotels, restaurant and the like.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been out in front of the world with end of times, civil war, and anti-slavery prophesy. Blacks have always been allowed membership and fellowship in the Church. It wasn’t until

Most people don’t know this, but through the Prophet Joseph Smith knowledge of a civil war which occurred between April 12, 1861 and April 9, 1865between northern and southern states was predicted almost 29 years before it occurred and is recorded in Section 87 of the Doctrine &amp; Covenants and also in The History of The Church. This section begins: “Revelation and prophecy on war, given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, 25 December 1832 (seeHistory of the Church,1:301–2). This section was received at a time when the brethren were reflecting and reasoning upon African slavery on the American continent and the slavery of the children of men throughout the world.

War is foretold between the Northern States and the Southern States and great calamities will fall upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Six hundred twenty-five thousand were killed.

This is considered scripture by the Mormons or Latter-day Saints. For example, in verses one and two of that section it says: “Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the warsthat will shortly cometo pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls;

And the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place. As you know, the Civil War did begin in South Carolina and, although Joseph Smith prophesied or predicted the war in 1832, it did not occur until 1865. This is a well-documented scripture in the annals of Church History. It has never been a secret or undisclosed.

The Church took a stand against slavery. That is one of the reasons it met with such stiff resistance when it attempted to establish as its center in the early 1830s Jackson County, Missouri as a gathering place. That was a slave state and people didn’t like the Mormons coming down there in large numbers changing the balance of power.

Part of this scripture, which is being fulfilled in the twenty-first century, also predicted “famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening handof an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full endof all nations.

People are not generally familiar with this scripture because the brunt of it’s consequences may not have yet come to bear on their lives. But organizations such as the American Inflation Association (AIA) are predicting that due to the giant deficits America is experiencing due to overspending of primarily two foolish presidents, congress, and the Federal Reserve System the dollar is quickly being devalued, prices are rising – and soon will be spiraling into massive commodity inflation and shortages this country has never before known, at least not since the Great Depression.

But only the unprepared need fear. The Church has advised its members to maintain a year’s supply of money, food, and other commodities in case of war, famine, internal strife, layoffs, and other causes of lack. Those who abide by this rule have been blessed. Those who do not always live in fear.

Do you realize that one-third off all Americans – that’s a hundred million people – have no private retirement plan or funding. They rely entirely on Social Security which is in trouble financially and to which Congress will be forced to take an ax and cut benefits. Is this the start of some of the strife that America will experience? Even a blind man can see America is not on good economic footing. We can no longer depend on the government for anything.

>by Don WhiteThis is a scientific blog. I pondered before adding the following article about so-called Green Movement dummies and in disrepute Global Warming freaks. I don’t believe in it’s principles – don’t think many do anymore, even the progressives who created this lie, and many more.

As a preface to what the article below says, I must admit that I am a strong, tithe-paying Mormon. Proud of it. Here’s a story that will “frost” the cockles of all progressives because they don’t believe in God. Before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader Brigham Young brought his people to the valleys of the Great Salt Lake, which later became the state of Utah, he got some bum advice from a noted trapper frontiersman, Jim Bridger. Bridger told him not to go to that salty-barren land by the huge salt sea, it wouldn’t produce crops and was too cold in the winter and summers were too short to harvest a crop.

Brigham Young, of course, didn’t listen to him, he listened to the master scientist, even our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, God of the universe. God told both Joseph Smith, Young’s predecessor, and Brigham to bring his beleaguered people to where Salt Lake City is today – a thriving metropolis. He further promised Young that it would be possible to plant crops and harvest them there. In fact, he said he would moderate the temperature (our first example of Climate manipulation and change in America). But since the promise was made by the very God who created the earth, obviously Brigham Young believed the revelation and the rest is history.

So I say to the Green activists and the Climate Change pigs who make money telling lies, stop and listen. Listen to what God is telling us. Become real again. Stop your lies. Get back to God. He is the only one who can save this nation. We were a God-fearing people in the beginning and in the middle, but where have we gone astray?

I’ll tell you. We’ve allowed a minority to guide us around by the nose. Atheists in America are a minority. We who believe in God and who actively worship and serve God are the majority in America. But it’s high time we stood up and were counted. Its time to declare to the world – especially to those progressives in Washington – that you can’t lie to us anymore. You can’t push us around. We’re onto you.Donald M. WhiteWindermere, Florida__________________________________________________________________

In classical Athens, public life became dominated by clever and smart-sounding sophists. These mellifluous “really wise guys” made money and gained influence by their rhetorical boasts to “prove” the most amazing “thinkery” that belied common sense.

We are living in a new age of sophism — but without a modern equivalent of Socrates to remind the public just how silly our highly credentialed and privileged new rhetoricians can often sound.

Take California, which is struggling with a near-record wet and snowy winter. Flooding spreads in the lowlands; snow piles up in the Sierras.

In February 2009, Nobel Laureate and Energy Secretary Steven Chu pontificated without evidence that California farms would dry up and blow away, inasmuch as 90 percent of the annual Sierra snowpack would disappear. Yet long-term studies of the central Sierra snowpack show average snow levels unchanged over the last 90 years. Many California farms are drying up — but from government’s, not nature’s, irrigation cutoffs.

England is freezing and snowy. But that’s odd, since global warming experts assured that the end of English snow was on the horizon. Australia is now flooding — despite predictions that its impending new droughts meant it could not sustain its present population. The New York Times just published an op-ed assuring the public that the current record cold and snow are proof of global warming. In theory, they could be, but one wonders: what, then, would record winter heat and drought prove?

In response to these unexpected symptoms of blizzards and deluges, climate physicians offer changing diagnoses. “Global change” has superseded “global warming.” After these radically cold winters, the next replacement appears to be “climate chaos.” Yet if next December is neither too hot nor too cold, expect to hear about the doldrum dangers of “climate calm.”

In 2009, brilliant economists in the Obama administration — Peter Orszag, Larry Summers and Christina Romer — assured us that record trillion-plus budget defects were critical to prevent stalled growth and 10 percent unemployment. For nearly two years we have experienced both, but now with an addition $3 trillion in national debt. All three have quietly either returned to academia or Wall Street.

There is also a new generation of young, sophistic bloggers who offer their wisdom from the New York-Washington corridor. They are usually graduates of America’s elite colleges and navigate in an upscale urban landscape. One, the Washington Post‘s 26-year-old Ezra Klein, recently scoffed to his readers that a bothersome U.S. Constitution was “100 years old” and had “no binding power on anything.”

>Below: Joesph and Hyrum Smith on horseback.Top: Joseph Smith befriending men who had come to kill him

In Far West, Missouri when a group of armed militiamen came to arrest Joseph Smith he looked upon them with a very pleasant smile. Stepping up to them, he gave each of them his hand.

The spirit touched these men. Joseph approached them in a manner which convinced them he was neither a guilty criminal nor a cowering hypocroyr.They stopped and stared as if a spectre had passed their path.

Joseph sat down and entered into conversation with them and explained to them the views and feelings of the people called Mormons and what their course had been, as also the treatment which they had met with from their enemies since the first outset of the Church. He told them that malice and detraction had pursued them ever since they had entered Missouri, but they were a people who had never broken the laws to his knowledge. But if they had they stood ready to be tried by the law . . .

“After this, he rose and said: “Mother I believe I will go home. Emma will be expecting me.” Two of the men sprang to their feet saying. “You shall not go alone, for it is not safe. We will go with you and guard you.” Joseph thanked them, and they went with him.

“The remainder of the officers stood by the door while these were absent, and I overheard the following conversation between them:

“First Officer: “Did you not feel strangely when Smith took you by the hand? I never felt so in my life.”“The Second Officer: “I felt as though I could not move. I would not harm one hair of that man’s head for the whole world.”“The Third Officer: “This is the last time you will ever catch me coming to kill Joe Smith or the Mormons either.”

The above was taken from an account by Joseph’s mother, Lucie Mack Smith, found in Teachings of the Presidents of the Church – Joseph Smith published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Our goal is to find each of our ancestors and their families and to do temple work for the dead, insuring that they, like us, are eligible for eternal life. All the rest of this is for pure edification and enjoyment. It’s fun to know who your ancestors were. It provides a clue as to who we are.

Defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil is called theodicey. Somewhere in the history of America, politicians have lost that desire to defend that which is most sacred, their religious views concerning marriage, family, and the sacred nature of God.

Joseph Smith gave us the best description we have ever had about what God looks like because God appeared with The Son to him in the sacred Palmyra, New York grove in 1820. “If you have seen the me, you have seen the Father,” the Savior said. Why don’t many Americans take that for what it literally means?

It is America’s challenge to defend righteousness and decry evil at every turn. Evil seems to getting the upper hand over what is basic, what is good, and those tenants of truth the founding fathers left us with. Of course, what today’s liberals are trying to do is re-write the U.S. Constitution. But it can’t be re-written, as Justice Scalia so eloquently said: It is a dead document as opposed to those left-wing liberals who say it is a ‘living document’ which should and can be reconfigured, changed, reduced, and re-interpreted by men many different ways. The liberals would like us to believe that nothing is worthy of keeping, even our Constitution which, along with the Bill of Rights, guarantees rights and privileges of free men living in a free country. They’re selling our freedom down the river.

Scalia says he believes the Constitution’s meaning cannot change over time. It was meant, he says, to impose rigid rules that cannot be altered, except by the difficult process of constitutional amendment.

“If you somehow adopt a philosophy that the Constitution itself is not static, but rather, it morphs from age to age to say whatever it ought to say — which is probably whatever the people would want it to say — you’ve eliminated the whole purpose of a constitution. And that’s essentially what the ‘living constitution’ leaves you with,” Scalia says.

Although he takes an “originalist” view of the Constitution, that its meaning today is the same as when it was drafted, Scalia says this doesn’t mean he wants to undo past Supreme Court decisions with which he disagrees.

“You can’t reinvent the wheel. You’ve got to accept the vast majority of prior decisions. … I do not argue that all of the mistakes made in the name of the so-called living constitution be ripped out. I just say, ‘Let’s cut it out. Go back to the good, old dead Constitution,” Scalia says.

This attitude puts him in a decidedly different camp than fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, who Scalia concedes is far more willing to reverse past precedent.

“I am a textualist. I am an originalist. I am not a nut,” he says, underscoring that he generally doesn’t favor undoing old rulings. He also notes that the idea of a living constitution places no restraints on judges.

Scalia has surprised some critics with his hard-line view on what he sees as the excesses of the Bush administration in at least one area — the imprisonment without charge of U.S. citizens accused of being enemy combatants.

“As with anybody arrested, you bring them to trial or you let them go,” Scalia says.

Notice that he said “U.S. citizens accused of being enemy combatants.” That is much different from imprisonment of foreigner combatants, who should be subject to Martial Law meded out by the military. This is part of the great debate taking place in America today by liberals and conservatives. Liberals love foreigners. In fact, in some cases they prefer them and legally defer to them over citizens of the U.S. To each his own, I suppose. But when you see a liberal doing this, look for the money. There’s always a money trail, and conservatives are on the nasty scent of Barack Obama in his apparently easy desire to take money from the likes of Tony Rezko—and trade future governmental favors for campaign cash donations from foreign countries like Pakistan that would prefer a softy president like him over a tough-minded president like John McCain . In other words, the word on Middle East streets is theAmerican liberals can be bought.

Where have the liberals in America gone wrong? They have lost their religion—not all of them, but as a whole. They no longer prescribe to the good old-fashioned ideas of families, honor, patriotism, and love of country that conservatives have. I will write more about this, becoming far more explicit in the next blog.

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